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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Adam think is unfair?
(a) That his older brother gets to be in the navy and he has to be home working on the farm.
(b) The situation in his family.
(c) The way he gets penalized in school when he's later because of working on the farm.
(d) The way the other kids laugh at him for helping out his parents.

2. What happens when Polly speaks sharply?
(a) She faints.
(b) She starts croaking.
(c) She cries.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does Rowena make for Sam?
(a) A hat.
(b) A pair of gloves.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A good quilt.

4. According to the title of Tale 3, Part 1, what is everywhere?
(a) Water.
(b) Money.
(c) Love.
(d) Problems.

5. What does Rowen suggest doing?
(a) Watering Henry.
(b) Finding a witch to undo the curse.
(c) Looking for Blinn.
(d) Nothing as anything might hurt Henry more.

6. What do Rowena's parents hear about the same time that Adam, Polly and Rowena are at Stew Meat's store?
(a) A loud pop.
(b) A scream.
(c) A strange sound in the woods.
(d) Someone yelling "alleluia".

7. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?
(a) To haul water.
(b) To work on a dam he is building to divert water to the fields.
(c) To collect river rocks to build a pool.
(d) To fish for his family's meals.

8. What do Stew Meat, Adam, Polly and Rowena realize?
(a) That Stew Meat's card is no good.
(b) Adam has a vision of his family's farm drying up.
(c) Polly can speak normally.
(d) Rowena feels like a great weight is lifted off her shoulders.

9. What is happening to the ceiling when Adam wakes?
(a) It is falling down.
(b) It is changing colors.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It is leaking.

10. Who suggests pulling up the weeds growing around Henry?
(a) Sam.
(b) Polly.
(c) Mrs. Jervis.
(d) Rowena.

11. What does Adam promise his mother to do?
(a) Be nicer to his young cousin who is staying with them.
(b) Be nicer to his youngest brother who sometimes pesters Adam.
(c) Help her set up a flower garden.
(d) Work harder in school.

12. What does Sam take to the barn to keep dry?
(a) The horse blanket.
(b) Henry's clothes.
(c) Henry's suitcase.
(d) The briefcase full of papers.

13. What does Pa do with some barrels and wood from the hen house?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Makes a raft.
(c) Fills them with their family possessions.
(d) Fills them with dynamite to try to blast a drain hole in the earth.

14. What is the situation when Adam wakes the next morning?
(a) His parents are in a boat tied the front porch.
(b) His father has driven the wagon out of the valley.
(c) The house is surrounded by water.
(d) The water has all receded.

15. How does Adam's Pa react to the wish Adam made?
(a) Pa is not angry.
(b) Pa says Adam could not have done this.
(c) Pa is irate.
(d) Pa believes it is divine judgement.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adam react to what someone says about the cause of the water problem?

2. What does Sam say when Rowena asks him to wait until she returns?

3. Who comes out to the farm?

4. What does Adam doubt about Uncle Poot?

5. What does Rowena mutter when Adam sits behind her in class?

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